When you think about it, don't you really owe it to your family to make a quick buck off of gullible rubes?

My sense is that what Americans learned as cursive is both (1) their only day-to-day alternative to print and (2) significantly more intricate and decorative than what I learned as "joined up" in primary school in the late 80s in the UK.

Saw a Hummer in SoHo yesterday and got instinctively indignant.

Wikipedia content about the banner sponsors: The Friends of Zion Museum (Hebrew: מוזיאון ידידי ישראל) is a museum in the historic Nahalat Shiv'a neighborhood of downtown Jerusalem. The museum celebrates Christian Zionists and their contribution to Israel.

Isn't this important context?

Not a causal study The paper’s footnote clarifies, “[t]his is a descriptive study, thereby limiting our ability to draw conclusions about cause and effect.” Its regular use of the terms “effect,” “impact,” and “outcome” should therefore be interpreted in this light. It is not hard to imagine that, for instance, the relationship between negative senses of well-being, self-esteem, and social connection on the one side and extended scrolling on TikTok or watching hours of YouTube on the other may not have an obvious direction of causality. Conversely, on days when teens felt closer to their friends, they spent more time conversing with them on SnapChat or WhatsApp. Some of the authors’ summary statements suggest that they too had trouble keeping this distinction in mind when they write, for example, that “[t]hese findings indicate that social media use is a contributor to mental health problems in the majority of adolescents.”

I did struggle with this and landed on "outcomes" as the term that sounded most neutral to me, even though the paper itself is far more loose with casual-sounding language. I discuss the issue inside the article here.

Fewer than 1000 reversals from ODS proceedings across the EU seems rather less than high impact...

No indication of what the numbers were during the previous period....

api.riverside.fm/hosting/r9uk... 😉 (my open source podcast player accesses the Apple podcasts directory, but doesn't seem to have your podcast listing yet)

Apologies for being old, but is the podcast available as a podcast (instead of a YT vid)?

Those Canadians are always so polite

Early is early. Can't be too careful when it comes to nurturing great thinkers.

When I was visiting unis as a prospective philosophy UG, the dept at Nottingham (iirc) told us they had no 9am classes because getting up to tutor the Queen of Sweden at 5am caused Descartes' early death.

Have you tried trading in political favors for upgrades?

New Study Examines Features and Policies for 29 AI ‘Undressing’ Apps | TechPolicy.Press Tim Bernard looks at findings from a new paper by Kaylee Williams published in the journal Violence Against Women.

In a new paper in the journal Violence Against Women, researcher Kaylee Williams examines a set of “nudify” apps through the lens of tech-facilitated gender-based violence, evaluating their affordances, marketing material, and policies. Tim Bernard unpacks the findings:

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

I just watched it - and it's probably the first 60 minutes segment I've ever seen. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Who Will Own TikTok in the US and Why it Matters for Democracy | TechPolicy.Press Tim Bernard draws insights from Paddy Leerssen's paper, "From Murdoch to Musk: Platform ownership and the political economy of online content governance."

6. ICYMI, my pre-news piece on the deal: www.techpolicy.press/who-will-own... and the FT seems to have the most detailed coverage of the memo: www.ft.com/content/7a77...

5. So, IMO it's too early to assume that content policy will change if the deal does in fact go through.

But has almost every stage of this saga been terrible from a free expression and good governance perspective?

Absolutely.

4. We don't know who will be on the "seven-member majority-American board of directors" that will appoint the new management and have the final word on content policy.

3 cont. (And once Trump has declared the deal a triumph, will he want to critique his handpicked winners?)

3. The other two named investors (Silver Lake, MGX) now owe Trump, but are not so ideologically aligned. Their primary responsibility will to be to increase the value of their investment, so they will balance maintaining the current successful operations of their platform with political concerns.

2. The only confirmed owner with strong ideological ties to Trump is Oracle. Oracle will own just 15%, and although Ellison controls it quite tightly, it's a public company and drastic moves that alienate TT users could expose the company to shareholder lawsuits.

1. It's unclear what impact Oracle retraining the algorithm using US data will have or what opportunities there will be for "manipulation"--from either China *or* the new controllers. (Will BD/TT Intl. no longer push weighting updates?)

🧵 on the new TikTok deal memo and what it means for content policy on the platform:

I imagine you can find one that will cater to your particular tastes. It's always ok to ask - you won't be judged (unless you're into that as well)

I hear there are more efficient services than Solar Bears fandom for those who are into pain

Platforms Report to EU Regulators Under DSA With an Eye on US Politics | TechPolicy.Press Tim Bernard provides analysis of the 2025 DSA systemic risk reports, amid shifting US politics and EU enforcement pressure.

As the EU moves toward its first DSA fine against X, major platforms have published their 2025 systemic risk reports. Tim Bernard explores what’s changed since 2024, and what the shifting US–EU political climate reveals about how platforms now frame hate speech, information integrity, and DEI.

No fair that the militant Islamists get fundamentalist zeal and we don't!

Thanks! They don't say so in the passage at hand (90), though maybe they're just imprecise here. There is another place where they talk about threat actors who "leverage private groups and pages" (23), and a specific mention of using CSEA detection on "most surfaces, including Groups and Pages" (71)